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I think it would be easier to use the H2 from electrolysis to reduce CO2 and thus create a liquid carbon fuel. That is backwards compatible with all existing refining, distribution and transport infrastructure.
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Alexander that is a good idea, instead of transporting a gas… transport a solid. I wonder if instead of creating the massive climate change on Venus, we could just use some method to precipitate the CO2 on its way up to the accelerator. The accelerator then projectiles it towards Mars. Regardless I like the idea of turning it solid. It is likely easier to projectile something solid than something gasous. But nothing is off the table at this early stage of the project!
Paul, I appreciate your approach is to do the basic science first. That could discover a synergy that we could leverage to make this happen. My brain is more of a shoot first, ask questions later, so I go first to the mechanics of the transport like Alexander went to. We need every brain type for this one.
I think it would be prudent at this point to figure out what gas we need to send. What do the Terraformers want? CO2, Nitrogen or what?
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Hmmm, very interesting points on Venus and the link to the HAVOC concept video. For a purely basic science exploration reason, I would say Yes lets do it. For a practical how will this help humans reason… I see Venus as a questionable endeavor… but that is pretty short sighted of me. I am sure with the active tectonics there is good minerals to be mined down there! That is the same reason extraterrestrials are on Earth after all… a water planet with active tectonics deposits a unique set of minerals.
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Any update here? Did the panel get cleaned?
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Assuming that diversity in your diet is good. Eating fungi is great because its a whole different kingdom than what we usually eat… plants, animals, maybe prokaryotes if your eating yogurts/ferments.
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What is the sociohistoric context of the sun? That sounds very anthropocentric.
Normalizing the universe is about dislodging the cultural context from the universe and thus conceptualizing the players and processes for what they are and how they relate.
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Yes I just checked out some of it. I guess my question, which I am sure is answered on the internet, is what is the process to terraform Mars. My understanding is we need to add a lot of gas to pressurize the atmosphere….. Paul Renaud, here is a fun brain experiment… lets say you HAD to pressurize Mars using the gas from Venus… How would you get it from Venus to Mars? Could you shoot a stream that would mostly make it to Mars?
Not sure if you could get the right composition of gas… is there much N2 on Venus?
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Good points Paul. It would be excellent if we could look at the night sky and delineate where the two spiral arms are. Then we could SEE that we are inbetween them. I am assuming ‘the milk way’ object in the sky is the inner arm. Not sure if the outer arm also shows up as an impressive night sky ‘object’.
Point is, if we could identify where the arms are and say ‘That is the inner arm’ and ‘That is the outer arm’ then it could make the Milky Way feel smaller and feel more like a neighborhood.
Still curious about the planet question.
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There are a number of things you don’t want to compost because you don’t want their chemicals to end up on your food garden. However you can use those composts for other areas such as perennials, trees of lawns.
Things to not compost because you don’t want the chemicals they contain…
Diseased Plants – The disease causing agent will likely not be killed in your home compost pile because it does not reach sufficient heat. This is best sent to an industrial composter where their piles get much hotter.
Black Walnut – there is a chemical that inhibits plants.
Glossy Paper – inks have heavy metals, better recycled
Treated lawn clippings – you don’t want the herbicides, pesticides to go on your food garden, however if you are making a compost for your home lawn, this may be fine.
Weeds with seeds – Again your home composter won’t get hot enough to kill the weed seeds.
Cat and Dog feces – There are disease causing microbes in these feces. You can make a compost pile dedicated for this material. You just never harvest compost from it, and you treat it more as a waste disposal unit. You don’t want any water or streams running through this pile. Trees will put their roots up under the pile and pull nutrients from it. This may be a very effective system for pet waste management.
Things you don’t want in your compost because it may attract rodents…
Meat, Dairy, Cheese – You can compost this stuff in your backyard pile. However you need to be at least intermediate level to do this. i.e. you should have your pile going for a year with no animal strikes.